The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, develops implantable BCI systems designed to restore communication and motor function for people with severe neurological conditions. His second company, Gestala, takes a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there,  but the EU’s landmark AI Act will now contain an […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the target was €120 million. The final figure has come in higher. The Paris-based venture capital firm has closed its DTS3 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based startup building space-based greenhouse gas monitoring technology, has closed a €5 million seed round to fund […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its identity on a single claim: AI is the computer now. Two weeks after launching Perplexity Computer, a cloud-based AI agent that can orchestrate 20 frontier […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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TL;DR Moz Pro now includes AI-powered keyword suggestions, an AI Visibility feature in open beta, and the industry-standard Domain Authority metric, all starting at $39/month on annual billing. A 7-day free trial is available on Standard and Medium plans, and a free Moz Community account gives permanent access to limited versions of Keyword Explorer and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The company removed 159 million scam ads last year and took down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks. Now it wants to catch scammers before they get to you. Meta has announced a fresh wave of anti-scam tools across its platforms, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, as it steps up both on-platform detection and cooperation […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Founded just months ago by two repeat Y Combinator founders and a retail veteran, Lemrock is betting that AI agents are becoming the new storefront,  and that brands are nowhere near ready for it. When you ask ChatGPT or Perplexity which running shoes to buy, someone has to make sure the right brands show up, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The deal pairs one of the world’s most powerful chip companies with the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO, and the compute commitment alone runs to tens of billions of dollars. When Mira Murati left OpenAI in September 2024, she declined to say much about what came next. What has become clear, roughly 18 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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EchoPrime, published in Nature in February 2026, outperforms both task-specific AI tools and previous foundation models across 23 cardiac benchmarks, and its code, weights, and a demo are publicly available. An echocardiogram is one of the most common diagnostic tools in cardiology: an ultrasound of the heart that reveals how it moves, how its chambers […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-based health insurance startup, has raised €100 million ($116 million) in a new round […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into water technology innovation. Water scarcity is not a future problem. It is a present one, already constraining agriculture, industry, and urban planning across multiple continents. What has lagged, historically, is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened its Health AI assistant to all US customers, removing the requirement to be a One […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Berlin startup, founded by the team behind viafintech, is building a single integration that lets banks, fintechs, and HR platforms offer gift cards, cashback, and tax-free employee benefits, without touching the underlying infrastructure themselves. The founders of viafintech, the prepaid payments company acquired by Paysafe in 2021, have returned with a new venture, and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building on the AI wave. Samaipata, the pan-European venture capital firm founded in Madrid in 2016, has launched its third fund with […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Founded in 2024, Outpost acts as the legally liable entity for cross-border payments, tax, and compliance, so merchants don’t have to. Ribbit led the Series A. Selling across borders has always been technically possible and operationally punishing. The payments fail more often. The tax obligations multiply. The audit risk accumulates in ways that are expensive […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The San Francisco startup, backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator, is betting that email, not some new identity protocol, is how AI agents will establish themselves on the internet. AI agents can already book your meetings, negotiate contracts, and handle support queues. What they have not had, until now, is a proper email address […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, that looks like progress. Security AI and automation are finally paying dividends, compressing detection timelines and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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CuraeSoft, a software studio developing practical solutions for professional services firms, observes that among growing consultancies and service-based organizations, many leaders operate without clear visibility into the profitability of their work. Given this context, the company developed coAmplifi Pro, a platform designed to bring greater transparency to service delivery and help organizations connect operational activity […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sources tell Wired that Nvidia has been pitching ‘NemoClaw’ to Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike ahead of Jensen Huang’s keynote on Monday. NVIDIA has spent the past several years becoming the indispensable hardware backbone of the AI industry. According to a new report, it may now be trying to become the software backbone too. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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